The New Adventure of Hikaru, Umi and Fuu as Witches
Chapter 7:Two in One
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-_-;; Sorry minna! You know what I meant.
For Adyen, I base my knowledge that even if Hikaru lived in a dojo all her
life, underage kendo students were not allowed to hold any real weapon.Even
if the dojo master is Satoru, he would follow the law or risk the dojo for
the authorities(was that right or am I wrong?).
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=Next Day,Flying Lessons=
The team captain Amane walked exitedly towards the dusty field after
he got a decent broom from the broomshed. He was smiling happily. He knows
they will win today, he'll do anything just to win with Team A. "Okay team C,
I'm concerned at what happend to Misa in the last match. I'd like to
temporarily replace her with....with-" Amane's eyes darted, not able to
decide if Umi or Fuu should be the Seeker. His eyes did the eeny-meeny miny
moe bit which at last rested on Fuu."-Fuu!!
"Wow! I'll be a Seeker!" Fuu was surpised.
"Congratulations Fuu!" Umi said. She was happy at her friend's luck,
even though she too was itching to be in the field.
"Thank you for understanding Umi. I knew you'd like to play Quidditch
too." Sensing her lonely glance, she patted her shoulder.
"Teams A and C hurry up, we haven't much time!" Professor Oda's
voice boomed from the Quidditch field. Scurrying quickly to the field, both
teams shook hands. "Take your positions!" Fourteen people flew up high. There
was a wooshing sound which meant that both bludgers and the snitch was
released."Go!" The Quaffle was thrown upward. It was caught by Hiroji Satake,
a Team A chaser donned with a red scarf like the previous team. He zoomed
quickly to the opponent's goal posts and was blocked by Michio.
Trying hard to obscure Hiroji's vision, he nealy missed a bludger by
dogding from his right which gave way to his opponent. "Amane!"
The team captain in blue scarf, went past Michio in a blur. So was
Hikaru. He was already head to head with the Quaffle bearer, pushing, hoping,
that he might get outbalanced and accidentally lose his grip. He did, but he
passed it behind his back. Hikaru caught the projectile and turned to the
other direction, closely followed by the other two chasers. There was a throw
but it was caught by the Keeper and gave it to his fellow chaser. Backing
from where they came, closely following. In a few seconds, the opponent
scored. Meanwhile, Fuu was circling the boundaries of the field slowly
looking for the tiny Snitch.
With the Quaffle in Amane's grasp, determined to equal the score
faked his throw with the Keeper and instead scored on the other ring.
Down below, Umi was cheering for her team. "You can do it!" she
waved as an team member passed by. An hour later, with 50-35 to Team C, there
was still no sign of the Snitch. Ninsei hammered the bludger to the chaser
currently holding the quaffle which hit his left arm. As the bludger left,
it was again hit toward Hikaru who missed after a swerve. Even it missed, Ise
was hit from Hikaru's below who had the time to hit the other bludger before
the first had hit her back. At the impact, she let go from her broom.
At seeing this, Professor Oda aimed his wand carefully."Penna Cado!"
The pace at Ise's fall eventually slowed which the Professor was able to
catch the immobile body. "Quidditch break!" he shouted above. Michio,
Mokichi, Amane, Ninsei, Fuu and Hikaru landed quickly beside the Professor.
"Is she alright?" Umi was running toward them.
"Not sure. This is not my specialty. We should bring her at once in
the Hospital room at once!" He was now sprinting towards the school as whole
team followed.
They passed other classrooms swiftly before they reached their
destination. She was laid in the nearest bed and the school nurse was
summoned. "Where was she hit?" she raised her wand.
"On her back." Hikaru answered.
" Assist me here Kagehisa!" as she asked for Ise's body to be
turned. There was now a small bump from under her robes. She used her wand
to cut a small slice through her robes. It revealed a swollen bump on top
of her spine. "Hm. It's a bit severe but nevertheless curable. Come back
later about dismissal time."
The team returned, Umi had now replaced Ise's job of being a beater
and the game resumed. The opponent gained more. 50-50, tying each other when
Fuu had heard a flitting sound zoomed past her shoulder and reflected gold on
her glasses. Quickly she sped after it and caught it seconds later. Cheers
and groans echoed from below. "Team C won,.." the Professor wrote in his
parchment '..which leaves Team A and Team B to compete this Saturday."
He looked pleased from the results of the game. "Class dismissed."
After removing their scarves and wiping away they sweat from their
faces, they proceeded to the cooking room. In a few minutes time Professor
Yoko entered the room herself. "Good afternoon class." she greeted them.
"Good afternoon Professor Yoko!" the students also greeted in return.
" I know you would be disappointed today, because we are still
reviewing past lessons." she said with a bit of frown. "We're going to
review the basics like we did last year."
"You mean we are going to study the basic food groups again
Professor?" Toshia looked at her.
"No, no Mr. Shigu." She gave a hearty laugh." I know most of you
know it by heart. I'm talking about the basic gohan." Everyone looked at her.
"We'll be cooking some rice."
Silence fell upon the students. Everyone almost know the basics of
rice cooking, why would they have to do it also in class?
"I know you've learned this very well last year. But some of you are
still having problems with it." She pointed to a large pan and in it were
more than five kilos of uncooked rice. "Each person take a cup, five in a
group and start cooking. Go on."
An hour later, the cooking was almost done. Their professor had
earlier prepared some steamed shrimp, diced carrots, one stick of butter,
pounded garlic, chopped onion leeks, and an assortment of cut meat and
deboned chicken. All through their work, she observed behind their backs
telling the other groups to clean the rice more or that they lacked
additional water. Finally, everyone was doing well. At that moment she
returned to the demonstration table. "I see all of you had forgotten some but
all of you are working very hard. You are doing great. Now please bring me
your cooked rice." Six students lined in front of the professor. She put the
butter in an oversized wok and the garlic and one by one she tipped the rice
of every pot into it.Every one watched intently at what she did. She put in
the meat first and using her wand constantly tossed and turned the contents
above a low fire. With the meat half cooked, in came the shrimp, carrots,
salt and onion leeks. The rice now had a yellow tinge from the butter.
"There!" she said with a few last tosses from ther flicks of her wand and
turned off the fire. "Come and get your fried rice!" After everyone had
their own bowl, there were still many more rice left. The professor covered
the wok with an enormous lid.
Before they ate they said "Itadakimasu!" and chowed down on their
warm meal. Everyone was satisfied and thanked their teacher before they left
their classroom. Team C took the path towards the Hospital room. On their
way there they heard sobs, jeers and shouts along the hall. A pair of first
years were being bullied by six fourth years cornering them.
"Give me your cards now!" demanded a towering fourth year.
"No!" they resisted.
"No Mudblood's worthy of keeping rare cards like these!" he snatched
what they were hiding behind their backs.
"No!" the other first year said again.
"You can't do this to us! We bought it with our own money!"
"We bought it with our own money!" the fourth year to their left
repeated in a small squeaky voice.
"Hey!" Hikaru ran toward them.
The six turned. The one in the middle was fanning the cards they were
able to take from the two as if it was sweltering hot. He had brown hair
down to the neck. Long bangs covered his left eye and the rest of the hair
was in a half pony with unmatchingly pale skin. Raising a brow, he yawned
and looked at Hikaru from head to toe. "And who might you be?"
"I am Hikaru Shidou. It is my turn to ask why were stealing what is
not yours?" She came to a stop in front of them.
"Stealing? Why, I am not stealing at all. I took what was rightfully
for us."
Ninsei followed Hikaru and whispered " Be careful, he's Seiki
Murasaki, son of the Head of the Ministry's Magical Law Enforcement Squad,
Mr. Etsuya Murasaki. You don't want to argue with them."
"Yeah, I think I see the resemblance." Hikaru looked at Seiki. "But
shouldn't his father taught him some manners? His son's making a big
impression of law-breaking."
"I'll explain to you later, let's just get out of here."
"But-but how about them?" Hikaru pointed at the cornered freshmen.
"Oh don't worry about them." Seiki looked back at the two with a
menacing smile. "We'll let them go once they returned some more of this-"
He pointed to the cards in his hands."To us."
"Y-yeah-we'll be alright." squeaked the first year.
"Ninsei...-"
"I know it does nothing but its for the best. Come on!" he tugged
her arm.
Hikaru gave her last glance at them, turned away in a stiff walk.
Withn a few minutes, she started again. "About Seiki, how come he was not
brought up well?"
They eventually reached the hospital room seeing the others who went
ahead of them. "Hikaru, Seiki's a somewhat a spoiled brat. He was left alone
at home doing everything he wanted when he wanted to." he paused. "That's
what I've heard from my parents or so."
Hikaru gave Ninsei a frown. A spoiled child? Not even disciplined
by his parents. What would the Ministry say about that? At last she gave a
sigh and looked at Ise, now sleeping. "What did Itami-san, the nurse, say to
you about Ise?" She looked at the others.
"She's going to turn up tomorrow. But she feels that she needs rest
from all the excitement we had today." Amane informed her."She might insist
also not to allow her strenuous exercises or movements." He shrugged. "Which
means Umi will be our Beater for Saturday."
"I'm glad that she will be alright." She glanced back at Ise and
produced a couple of sweets inside her pocket,placed it in her bedside table.
They watched her for a few more moments before the group left. Some like
Amane, Mokichi and Misa in their dormitories and some straight to their
homes.
Silently the four left school until Ninsei waved goodbye and went his
separate way. It was Umi who first spoke. "I did not know that playing
Quidditch could be quite dangerous."
"So do I." Fuu nodded. " It was not like this during Harry's first
Quidditch match."
"Probably because only one teacher was closely monitoring our
movements." Hikaru said her thought. "I mean, it would be more difficult
watching fourteen heads in the air in a large field."
"Guess so. Upon mentioning Harry, I miss their lot. I'll go try
sending them an owl tonight before I go to bed." Umi thumped her clenched
right hand on her open left palm in reminder. "See you tomorrow!"
"See ya!" the other two said as they too went to home's direction.
'Wait a sec. I forgot to ask Ninsei what did the fourth years meant
'Mudblood' for? ' Hikaru made a mental note as she was welcomed by Hikari's
barks of joy. "Heehee! Stop it Hikari, I'm also glad you waited for me."
She said as the brown dog licked her face as it jumped on her. "Let's go and
have some dinner. I'll try what my teacher taught us today, I'm sure you'll
love it." she caressed and patted the dog's back.
=Hououji Residence=
"Otoosan, Okaasan. Thank you for the evening tea!" Fuu went upstairs
together with her sister, Kuu.
"Boy Fuu, tonight's discussion is so boring." Kuu brushed her long
brown strands of hair to her back as the walked toward their rooms.
Fuu merely smiled. Both already knew that evening tea with their
parents was the only quality time they could be together. "I think it's
quite sensible. I know hearing the current news in politics to you is
something you do not like to discuss. But look at it in another angle, your
History and Today teacher would be very pleased that you know the current
events."
"Right. At least I've got someting to throw at the hag." Kuu opened
the door to her room."Good night!".
"To you also." Fuu knew her elder sister was trying hard to study.
Her history teacher was extremely strict. She had advised the class to
listen to the news daily as she hinted she might give mock questions and
observations from yesterday's news.
As she closed the door behind her. Mokona was bouncing once again
up and down in her springy bed, pillows and bedspread scattered. "Mokona,
that's probably the hundred time you messed with my bed!" she walked toward
the ball of marmallow and caught it in her arms as it fell. "It's time to
go to sleep. Now sit still for a few moment's time while I'll fix my bed."
She put it in her desk.
"Puu! Puu!" it's ears flapped.
After fixing her bed, she took Mokona beside her as she lied down
on the comfort of her bed and turned off her nightlamp. "Have pleasant
dreams Mokona!"
The next day Fuu got herself ready for school, at last wearing her
emerald-embedded glove. "Bye Otoosan,Okaasan!" as she and Kuu went out of
the tall metal entrance to their home.
"Hey Fuu!" Kuu kept glancing behind her.
"Yes Kuu?"
"Your unusual pet's following us or you in fact. Have you forgotten
to feed it?"
"No I haven't." She turned around and showed her outstretched arm
to Mokona. It gladly hopped toward her. "It probably wanted to see my
friends."
"You mean 'it' missed Hikaru and Umi?"
"Guess so. I can't keep it forever inside. It has to have exercise
once in a while."
"Kay, see you later!"
"See you!" she said back cheerfully. "Now then, let's go!" Fuu went
to a sprint.
Hikaru and Umi were already waiting for her in the Multi-purpose
Hall. They were now halfway to finishing their breakfast. "You're almost
late. What took you?" the red-haired girl asked.
"Well...Mokona wanted to come with me." she whispered to the other
two.
"Whaaat!" Umi was quite taken aback. "You brought the naughty
fluffball!"
"Calm down Umi. You might catch suspicions." Hikaru looked at the
teacher's table. None of them noticed anything and she answered in a whisper
"Mokona always informs us of anything wrong or happening. It must have
something for us."
"Yeah. But we cannot do it right now." Umi looked at her wristwatch.
"We're supposed to have classes in a few minutes time." she glanced around
for any suspicious looks from other tables." Good thing Ise and Ninsei had
already left."
"Puu! Puu!" Mokona squeaked.
"We've got to get it out here and just finish this, I don't think
it shall take that long." Hikaru grabbed one bowl of rice and tipped some
braised meat into it with a fresh chopstick. "Let's go!"
They wended their way along the halls cautiously to an open door
leading toward the woods. Unknown to their knowledge, someone was following
the three. They hid inside thick bushes while the adherent behind a tree.
Fuu gently dropped Mokona in the middle of their circle as Hikaru
gave the rice bowl toward her."Thanks Hikaru! I did not take my breakfast
yet."
"What has happened Mokona?" Umi questioned the jewel-embedded
creature.
"Puu.." It stared on the floor.
"It seems really serious, isn't it? It's all going to be alright
please tell us." Hikaru caressed it on its head.
"Pupupuu!" Mokona hopped."Puuuu!" a beam of light emitted from
his red gem. At once the three knew it must be from Master Clef. The looked
up, expecting the familiar face of their guide. Instead, it was
"Ascot!" Umi looked at the hologram disbelieving.
"Good day, Legendary Magic Knights! I am speaking in behalf of Master
Clef-
"Legendary Magic Knights...." the adherent mutterd behind the tree.
-We recieved a strange message that must have travelled a long
distance farther than Fahren." Flashes of the recent incident was shown. "It
said that a menace has been released from its imprisonment. It also mentioned
that only the messenger's descendant, named Serenity and her guardians, the
Sailor Senshi has the only power to seal it back. As you are of different
Time and Space, you may have a possibility of meeting the descendant. I am
sorry if I could not reply to you directly as the Master have. I am still in
my apprenticeship. I hope you are all fine, and I wish you good luck!" with a
flicker the message was finally cut.
There was silence. Fuu finally spoke, laying down the bowl with the
hashi on top. "How will we be able to do such a task? There must be more
than millions of people living in the world."
"Let us go see what we can do." their leader gave a sigh."For the
meantime, we have to run back to class. We're minutes late!" She stood up.
"Mokona, please return home."
"Puu!!! Pupupuuu!!!" it hopped happily.
"Thanks for telling us Mokona." Umi gave Mokona a squeeze of
appreciation.
At that they ran to their first class. Their Transfiguration
Professor was not happy with it. They were given additional assignments as
punishment for being late. The classes were on the roll and by the end of
History of Magic. The second years were totally fatigued. Hikaru, Umi, Fuu,
Ninsei and Ise slumped wearily on the second year's table.
"Boy, this is very tiring." Ise said to the four. "Do you think
taking classes is under the category of 'strenuous exercises'? Because if it
is, I've got an excuse to leave class."
"Nope. I think it's under the capital B-O-R-I-N-G. All we do is
listen, copy, and practice." Ninsei said.
"Yeah. We even had extra Tranfiguration assignments." Umi mentioned
after swallowing some rice.
"That reminds me. Why were you late?" Ise's thick ebony-black bangs
fell on her face as she lowered her head.
"We waited for Fuu to arrive and eat her breakfast." Hikaru covered
the true reason.
"You waited for her?" Ninsei stared disbelievingly at the three.
" You could have just left her to be late, I mean you don't have to be blamed
for coming early to school!" He gave a sideward glance at his blonde-brown
classmate eating silently.
The reflection of Ninsei's face in her spectacles caught her
attention. "Erm... we always do things together very often. I guess it
became a bad habit."
"Yeah. We are very close friends, and we keep our words to always
be together for the better of for the worse. I hope you could understand
why we prefer it that way, Ninsei and Ise." Her blue eyes looked at them
earnestly.
A pair of blank faces looked back at them. "Alright, so you're
inseperable. But can you also be our close friends? We've never had much
seriousness about friendships here in Practical. Would you promise that?"
Ise pushed back her bangs.
"We promise." they said altogether.
At that moment someone tapped Umi's shoulder. She turned around
to see their Astronomy Professor, Kuso Gakusha, whom they were sheduled to
meet every Monday evening. "Yes, Professor Gakusha?"
"I would like to have a word with Miss Shidou, Ryuuzaki and Hououji."
he looked at Ninsei and Ise. "In private."
"Yes Professor." the three followed their professor into an empty
classroom.
"Sit."
They sat, with perplexed looks at a teacher whom they never had a
class yet. Still they kept their silence to themselves.
"I have been tipped off by another student that you three were
practicing the Dark Arts early this morning in the nearby woods." He took
breath. "You must know by now that I am the Overseer of your year and I am
concerned of what you did. Where have you learned these Dark Arts? Hogwarts,
I suppose?"
At the surprising news, they made themselves look innocent. Someone
must have seen them. Their lips were sealed with determination. Minutes
passed by, Professor Gakusha merely stared at each of their eyes.
"No answer. Very well, I have no power to punish your case, which means the
Headmaster has the only authority to expell you three. Stand up. We will
be visiting the Headmaster." Forgetting about Defense Against the Dark Arts,
they followed their Overseer. Reaching the fifth floor through one of the
large staircases leading to it. They must be now is their topmost floor.
There were only two doors that can be found there, which were probably other
classrooms. Professor Gakusha was moving toward a wall to the two
Samurai-garbed statues. The wall was also ornamented with painted scrolls
hanging on pegs. They too,were moving, although not as realistic-looking as
the ones back in Hogwarts. Stepping in front of the statues, their Professor
spoke."Gakusha Kuso, Second Year Overseer, here to discuss about some
students." The two statues glowed yellow and came to life.
"Password if you please." One of them said.
"Shinsetsu."
At hearing the correct password, the two statues bowed down at them
and a wooden sliding door appeared behind it. Sliding it quickly, he almost
slammed it open. It had taken their Headmaster, Shitajiki Ken surprised at
the sudden outburst in his quiet room. The Headmaster's eyes tightened,
looking keenly at Professor Gakusha. He was surely not expecting anyone at
this time as he was entertaining a guest during their simple tea ceremony.
The guest had his back at the persons who just came in, adjacent to the
Headmaster. " What's wrong Kuso?"
"Ms. Shidou, Ryuuzaki and Hououji was caught outside in the woods
during breakfast." their Overseer pointed accusingly at the three
transferees.
"Then there is nothing wrong with that. They can walk freely around
the school grounds if they do not have any classes." Shitajiki replied.
" Practicing the Dark Arts." he added sharply.
"What made you think they were?"
"I was informed by Mr. Seiki Etsuya tha he had witnessed a Dark Arts
practice."
The young Headmaster moved his eyes to his guest, feeling anger, he
stood up from his seat and paced from left to right. He was looking for
words to answer the Second Year Overseer. Silence reigned for the moment as
the three Knights entered the room as the door slid itself closed. He found
it more and more frustrating to think.
"Excuse me Ken, I think I should have a say in this conversation."
A familiar voice rang clearly through Hikaru, Umi and Fuu's ears. He can't
be here they thought.
"Who might you be?" Professor Gakusha spat at the man who had his
back behind him.
"Kuso! Mind your manners! Your talking to-" Professor Shitajiki was
stopped at the raising of the guest's hand.
"I'm afraid we haven't met each other yet." the guest's head turned,
revealing an aging face, a crooked nose, sparkling blue eyes and half-moon
spectacles. "My name is Albus Dumbledore."
'No way!' Umi would have blurted it out as the other two were also
thinking on the same line. Hikaru nudged Umi as all three pairs of eyes
widened in surprise.
"The Hogawarts Headmaster!?!" their Overseer was taken by surprise.
"Yes, he is Kuso. I suggest you settle down by sitting where we are
currently discussing matters." The young Headmaster's finally unknotted his
tongue. The four did. "Where were we...?"
"About their extraordinary abilities." Professor Dumbledore jogged
his memory.
"Ah, yes, yes." Looking at the three transferees. He did not expect
them to appears while both headmsters were talking about them. "So you say
that these witches are out of the ordinary."
"Yes, they do." he gave a short nod. "But from my past observations
from them, they have to 'vent' their excess energies coming from their
abilities. They would often leave secretly, out of harm's way from other
people."
"So most probably that was what they did this morning." He said
in an acceptable tone fo relief. He looked at Professor Gakusha and back
at the Hogwarts Headmster. "But may I ask what are their abilities, I meant
to say was that upon your accurate observations, that you must have already
identified what they were. What are they?"
"These abilities you asked have yet to be identified in the Wizarding
World. Probably magic new to the next generations to come or rarely
appearing." Dumbledore finally took a sip of tea from the ceramic tea cup.
"Hm. Enigmatic witches. That's something we do not see every day.
Life's getting more complicated, am I right to say that Dumbldore?"
"Yes, it does complicate by the second."
"Do not worry about it. We shall be taking care of them and of their
gifts. I am happy you have informed me."
"No problem at all. I find your school very intriguing."
"Yes, feel free to look around." Professor Shitajiki looked warningly
at Profesor Gakusha's reaction at his words. Their eye contact had put a
stop to his interferance. "Professor Gakusha will escort you if you wish."
"No, but thanks. I have other businesses to attend to. Thank you for
your warm time and effort." He stood up, towering them and bent down to a
short bow. He turned to the Knights and did the same."I am hoping you to
study well."
"We will Professor Dumbledore. Thank you for your concern."
Seconds later he left. Professor Gakusha wore a grimace in his face
when the guest had already left. He did not seem to like being friendly
with other persons belonging to other schools aside from Practical.
"As for you three, you may return to classes." The young Headmaster
smiled at them.
The three stood up and bowed to their Professors, walked away. On the
steps down, they started talking."He must have assumed that anything weird
that might happen, will be blamed for us and came up at once with a cover."
Umi was the first one to start.
"That may be what we believe, but I wish we were able to talk to him
too. We could have at least told him what we've heard from Mokona, he could
have helped us find a way." Fuu gave a sigh of disappointment.
"I wish so too. His appearance must have meant about his concern for
us. I appreciate that at least we saw him, travelling half of the globe
just for that."
"Yeah. It was nice of him." Umi spoke as they were able to reach
other fellow Second Years before Analysis started. They were instructed to
further practice their weapon of choice, at each other if the class wanted
to. Professor Toru expected them to be well-trained before he starts his
Practical Analysis lessons. Today was an interesting day. So many events,
so little time.
Speaking of time, we haven't heard anything from the Sailor Senshi.
None of them were unaware that their greatest enemy was yet to come and they
are going to need all the help they can get.
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Here I go again. I hoped you enjoyed it. I kinda battered me brain to try and
finish this next chapter as I was not inspired. I also finally got HP5,
though not what I expected, I thought the war against the Dark Lord had
begun but it was allotted probably for Harry's 6th and 7th year at Hogwarts.
^-^ Please Review. You can send me comments, questions, suggestions, flame
or fan mail through reviewing my fanfic.
-Sailor Rainbow Ichi logging out for some more of Ragnarok!
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Chapter 7:Two in One
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-_-;; Sorry minna! You know what I meant.
For Adyen, I base my knowledge that even if Hikaru lived in a dojo all her
life, underage kendo students were not allowed to hold any real weapon.Even
if the dojo master is Satoru, he would follow the law or risk the dojo for
the authorities(was that right or am I wrong?).
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=Next Day,Flying Lessons=
The team captain Amane walked exitedly towards the dusty field after
he got a decent broom from the broomshed. He was smiling happily. He knows
they will win today, he'll do anything just to win with Team A. "Okay team C,
I'm concerned at what happend to Misa in the last match. I'd like to
temporarily replace her with....with-" Amane's eyes darted, not able to
decide if Umi or Fuu should be the Seeker. His eyes did the eeny-meeny miny
moe bit which at last rested on Fuu."-Fuu!!
"Wow! I'll be a Seeker!" Fuu was surpised.
"Congratulations Fuu!" Umi said. She was happy at her friend's luck,
even though she too was itching to be in the field.
"Thank you for understanding Umi. I knew you'd like to play Quidditch
too." Sensing her lonely glance, she patted her shoulder.
"Teams A and C hurry up, we haven't much time!" Professor Oda's
voice boomed from the Quidditch field. Scurrying quickly to the field, both
teams shook hands. "Take your positions!" Fourteen people flew up high. There
was a wooshing sound which meant that both bludgers and the snitch was
released."Go!" The Quaffle was thrown upward. It was caught by Hiroji Satake,
a Team A chaser donned with a red scarf like the previous team. He zoomed
quickly to the opponent's goal posts and was blocked by Michio.
Trying hard to obscure Hiroji's vision, he nealy missed a bludger by
dogding from his right which gave way to his opponent. "Amane!"
The team captain in blue scarf, went past Michio in a blur. So was
Hikaru. He was already head to head with the Quaffle bearer, pushing, hoping,
that he might get outbalanced and accidentally lose his grip. He did, but he
passed it behind his back. Hikaru caught the projectile and turned to the
other direction, closely followed by the other two chasers. There was a throw
but it was caught by the Keeper and gave it to his fellow chaser. Backing
from where they came, closely following. In a few seconds, the opponent
scored. Meanwhile, Fuu was circling the boundaries of the field slowly
looking for the tiny Snitch.
With the Quaffle in Amane's grasp, determined to equal the score
faked his throw with the Keeper and instead scored on the other ring.
Down below, Umi was cheering for her team. "You can do it!" she
waved as an team member passed by. An hour later, with 50-35 to Team C, there
was still no sign of the Snitch. Ninsei hammered the bludger to the chaser
currently holding the quaffle which hit his left arm. As the bludger left,
it was again hit toward Hikaru who missed after a swerve. Even it missed, Ise
was hit from Hikaru's below who had the time to hit the other bludger before
the first had hit her back. At the impact, she let go from her broom.
At seeing this, Professor Oda aimed his wand carefully."Penna Cado!"
The pace at Ise's fall eventually slowed which the Professor was able to
catch the immobile body. "Quidditch break!" he shouted above. Michio,
Mokichi, Amane, Ninsei, Fuu and Hikaru landed quickly beside the Professor.
"Is she alright?" Umi was running toward them.
"Not sure. This is not my specialty. We should bring her at once in
the Hospital room at once!" He was now sprinting towards the school as whole
team followed.
They passed other classrooms swiftly before they reached their
destination. She was laid in the nearest bed and the school nurse was
summoned. "Where was she hit?" she raised her wand.
"On her back." Hikaru answered.
" Assist me here Kagehisa!" as she asked for Ise's body to be
turned. There was now a small bump from under her robes. She used her wand
to cut a small slice through her robes. It revealed a swollen bump on top
of her spine. "Hm. It's a bit severe but nevertheless curable. Come back
later about dismissal time."
The team returned, Umi had now replaced Ise's job of being a beater
and the game resumed. The opponent gained more. 50-50, tying each other when
Fuu had heard a flitting sound zoomed past her shoulder and reflected gold on
her glasses. Quickly she sped after it and caught it seconds later. Cheers
and groans echoed from below. "Team C won,.." the Professor wrote in his
parchment '..which leaves Team A and Team B to compete this Saturday."
He looked pleased from the results of the game. "Class dismissed."
After removing their scarves and wiping away they sweat from their
faces, they proceeded to the cooking room. In a few minutes time Professor
Yoko entered the room herself. "Good afternoon class." she greeted them.
"Good afternoon Professor Yoko!" the students also greeted in return.
" I know you would be disappointed today, because we are still
reviewing past lessons." she said with a bit of frown. "We're going to
review the basics like we did last year."
"You mean we are going to study the basic food groups again
Professor?" Toshia looked at her.
"No, no Mr. Shigu." She gave a hearty laugh." I know most of you
know it by heart. I'm talking about the basic gohan." Everyone looked at her.
"We'll be cooking some rice."
Silence fell upon the students. Everyone almost know the basics of
rice cooking, why would they have to do it also in class?
"I know you've learned this very well last year. But some of you are
still having problems with it." She pointed to a large pan and in it were
more than five kilos of uncooked rice. "Each person take a cup, five in a
group and start cooking. Go on."
An hour later, the cooking was almost done. Their professor had
earlier prepared some steamed shrimp, diced carrots, one stick of butter,
pounded garlic, chopped onion leeks, and an assortment of cut meat and
deboned chicken. All through their work, she observed behind their backs
telling the other groups to clean the rice more or that they lacked
additional water. Finally, everyone was doing well. At that moment she
returned to the demonstration table. "I see all of you had forgotten some but
all of you are working very hard. You are doing great. Now please bring me
your cooked rice." Six students lined in front of the professor. She put the
butter in an oversized wok and the garlic and one by one she tipped the rice
of every pot into it.Every one watched intently at what she did. She put in
the meat first and using her wand constantly tossed and turned the contents
above a low fire. With the meat half cooked, in came the shrimp, carrots,
salt and onion leeks. The rice now had a yellow tinge from the butter.
"There!" she said with a few last tosses from ther flicks of her wand and
turned off the fire. "Come and get your fried rice!" After everyone had
their own bowl, there were still many more rice left. The professor covered
the wok with an enormous lid.
Before they ate they said "Itadakimasu!" and chowed down on their
warm meal. Everyone was satisfied and thanked their teacher before they left
their classroom. Team C took the path towards the Hospital room. On their
way there they heard sobs, jeers and shouts along the hall. A pair of first
years were being bullied by six fourth years cornering them.
"Give me your cards now!" demanded a towering fourth year.
"No!" they resisted.
"No Mudblood's worthy of keeping rare cards like these!" he snatched
what they were hiding behind their backs.
"No!" the other first year said again.
"You can't do this to us! We bought it with our own money!"
"We bought it with our own money!" the fourth year to their left
repeated in a small squeaky voice.
"Hey!" Hikaru ran toward them.
The six turned. The one in the middle was fanning the cards they were
able to take from the two as if it was sweltering hot. He had brown hair
down to the neck. Long bangs covered his left eye and the rest of the hair
was in a half pony with unmatchingly pale skin. Raising a brow, he yawned
and looked at Hikaru from head to toe. "And who might you be?"
"I am Hikaru Shidou. It is my turn to ask why were stealing what is
not yours?" She came to a stop in front of them.
"Stealing? Why, I am not stealing at all. I took what was rightfully
for us."
Ninsei followed Hikaru and whispered " Be careful, he's Seiki
Murasaki, son of the Head of the Ministry's Magical Law Enforcement Squad,
Mr. Etsuya Murasaki. You don't want to argue with them."
"Yeah, I think I see the resemblance." Hikaru looked at Seiki. "But
shouldn't his father taught him some manners? His son's making a big
impression of law-breaking."
"I'll explain to you later, let's just get out of here."
"But-but how about them?" Hikaru pointed at the cornered freshmen.
"Oh don't worry about them." Seiki looked back at the two with a
menacing smile. "We'll let them go once they returned some more of this-"
He pointed to the cards in his hands."To us."
"Y-yeah-we'll be alright." squeaked the first year.
"Ninsei...-"
"I know it does nothing but its for the best. Come on!" he tugged
her arm.
Hikaru gave her last glance at them, turned away in a stiff walk.
Withn a few minutes, she started again. "About Seiki, how come he was not
brought up well?"
They eventually reached the hospital room seeing the others who went
ahead of them. "Hikaru, Seiki's a somewhat a spoiled brat. He was left alone
at home doing everything he wanted when he wanted to." he paused. "That's
what I've heard from my parents or so."
Hikaru gave Ninsei a frown. A spoiled child? Not even disciplined
by his parents. What would the Ministry say about that? At last she gave a
sigh and looked at Ise, now sleeping. "What did Itami-san, the nurse, say to
you about Ise?" She looked at the others.
"She's going to turn up tomorrow. But she feels that she needs rest
from all the excitement we had today." Amane informed her."She might insist
also not to allow her strenuous exercises or movements." He shrugged. "Which
means Umi will be our Beater for Saturday."
"I'm glad that she will be alright." She glanced back at Ise and
produced a couple of sweets inside her pocket,placed it in her bedside table.
They watched her for a few more moments before the group left. Some like
Amane, Mokichi and Misa in their dormitories and some straight to their
homes.
Silently the four left school until Ninsei waved goodbye and went his
separate way. It was Umi who first spoke. "I did not know that playing
Quidditch could be quite dangerous."
"So do I." Fuu nodded. " It was not like this during Harry's first
Quidditch match."
"Probably because only one teacher was closely monitoring our
movements." Hikaru said her thought. "I mean, it would be more difficult
watching fourteen heads in the air in a large field."
"Guess so. Upon mentioning Harry, I miss their lot. I'll go try
sending them an owl tonight before I go to bed." Umi thumped her clenched
right hand on her open left palm in reminder. "See you tomorrow!"
"See ya!" the other two said as they too went to home's direction.
'Wait a sec. I forgot to ask Ninsei what did the fourth years meant
'Mudblood' for? ' Hikaru made a mental note as she was welcomed by Hikari's
barks of joy. "Heehee! Stop it Hikari, I'm also glad you waited for me."
She said as the brown dog licked her face as it jumped on her. "Let's go and
have some dinner. I'll try what my teacher taught us today, I'm sure you'll
love it." she caressed and patted the dog's back.
=Hououji Residence=
"Otoosan, Okaasan. Thank you for the evening tea!" Fuu went upstairs
together with her sister, Kuu.
"Boy Fuu, tonight's discussion is so boring." Kuu brushed her long
brown strands of hair to her back as the walked toward their rooms.
Fuu merely smiled. Both already knew that evening tea with their
parents was the only quality time they could be together. "I think it's
quite sensible. I know hearing the current news in politics to you is
something you do not like to discuss. But look at it in another angle, your
History and Today teacher would be very pleased that you know the current
events."
"Right. At least I've got someting to throw at the hag." Kuu opened
the door to her room."Good night!".
"To you also." Fuu knew her elder sister was trying hard to study.
Her history teacher was extremely strict. She had advised the class to
listen to the news daily as she hinted she might give mock questions and
observations from yesterday's news.
As she closed the door behind her. Mokona was bouncing once again
up and down in her springy bed, pillows and bedspread scattered. "Mokona,
that's probably the hundred time you messed with my bed!" she walked toward
the ball of marmallow and caught it in her arms as it fell. "It's time to
go to sleep. Now sit still for a few moment's time while I'll fix my bed."
She put it in her desk.
"Puu! Puu!" it's ears flapped.
After fixing her bed, she took Mokona beside her as she lied down
on the comfort of her bed and turned off her nightlamp. "Have pleasant
dreams Mokona!"
The next day Fuu got herself ready for school, at last wearing her
emerald-embedded glove. "Bye Otoosan,Okaasan!" as she and Kuu went out of
the tall metal entrance to their home.
"Hey Fuu!" Kuu kept glancing behind her.
"Yes Kuu?"
"Your unusual pet's following us or you in fact. Have you forgotten
to feed it?"
"No I haven't." She turned around and showed her outstretched arm
to Mokona. It gladly hopped toward her. "It probably wanted to see my
friends."
"You mean 'it' missed Hikaru and Umi?"
"Guess so. I can't keep it forever inside. It has to have exercise
once in a while."
"Kay, see you later!"
"See you!" she said back cheerfully. "Now then, let's go!" Fuu went
to a sprint.
Hikaru and Umi were already waiting for her in the Multi-purpose
Hall. They were now halfway to finishing their breakfast. "You're almost
late. What took you?" the red-haired girl asked.
"Well...Mokona wanted to come with me." she whispered to the other
two.
"Whaaat!" Umi was quite taken aback. "You brought the naughty
fluffball!"
"Calm down Umi. You might catch suspicions." Hikaru looked at the
teacher's table. None of them noticed anything and she answered in a whisper
"Mokona always informs us of anything wrong or happening. It must have
something for us."
"Yeah. But we cannot do it right now." Umi looked at her wristwatch.
"We're supposed to have classes in a few minutes time." she glanced around
for any suspicious looks from other tables." Good thing Ise and Ninsei had
already left."
"Puu! Puu!" Mokona squeaked.
"We've got to get it out here and just finish this, I don't think
it shall take that long." Hikaru grabbed one bowl of rice and tipped some
braised meat into it with a fresh chopstick. "Let's go!"
They wended their way along the halls cautiously to an open door
leading toward the woods. Unknown to their knowledge, someone was following
the three. They hid inside thick bushes while the adherent behind a tree.
Fuu gently dropped Mokona in the middle of their circle as Hikaru
gave the rice bowl toward her."Thanks Hikaru! I did not take my breakfast
yet."
"What has happened Mokona?" Umi questioned the jewel-embedded
creature.
"Puu.." It stared on the floor.
"It seems really serious, isn't it? It's all going to be alright
please tell us." Hikaru caressed it on its head.
"Pupupuu!" Mokona hopped."Puuuu!" a beam of light emitted from
his red gem. At once the three knew it must be from Master Clef. The looked
up, expecting the familiar face of their guide. Instead, it was
"Ascot!" Umi looked at the hologram disbelieving.
"Good day, Legendary Magic Knights! I am speaking in behalf of Master
Clef-
"Legendary Magic Knights...." the adherent mutterd behind the tree.
-We recieved a strange message that must have travelled a long
distance farther than Fahren." Flashes of the recent incident was shown. "It
said that a menace has been released from its imprisonment. It also mentioned
that only the messenger's descendant, named Serenity and her guardians, the
Sailor Senshi has the only power to seal it back. As you are of different
Time and Space, you may have a possibility of meeting the descendant. I am
sorry if I could not reply to you directly as the Master have. I am still in
my apprenticeship. I hope you are all fine, and I wish you good luck!" with a
flicker the message was finally cut.
There was silence. Fuu finally spoke, laying down the bowl with the
hashi on top. "How will we be able to do such a task? There must be more
than millions of people living in the world."
"Let us go see what we can do." their leader gave a sigh."For the
meantime, we have to run back to class. We're minutes late!" She stood up.
"Mokona, please return home."
"Puu!!! Pupupuuu!!!" it hopped happily.
"Thanks for telling us Mokona." Umi gave Mokona a squeeze of
appreciation.
At that they ran to their first class. Their Transfiguration
Professor was not happy with it. They were given additional assignments as
punishment for being late. The classes were on the roll and by the end of
History of Magic. The second years were totally fatigued. Hikaru, Umi, Fuu,
Ninsei and Ise slumped wearily on the second year's table.
"Boy, this is very tiring." Ise said to the four. "Do you think
taking classes is under the category of 'strenuous exercises'? Because if it
is, I've got an excuse to leave class."
"Nope. I think it's under the capital B-O-R-I-N-G. All we do is
listen, copy, and practice." Ninsei said.
"Yeah. We even had extra Tranfiguration assignments." Umi mentioned
after swallowing some rice.
"That reminds me. Why were you late?" Ise's thick ebony-black bangs
fell on her face as she lowered her head.
"We waited for Fuu to arrive and eat her breakfast." Hikaru covered
the true reason.
"You waited for her?" Ninsei stared disbelievingly at the three.
" You could have just left her to be late, I mean you don't have to be blamed
for coming early to school!" He gave a sideward glance at his blonde-brown
classmate eating silently.
The reflection of Ninsei's face in her spectacles caught her
attention. "Erm... we always do things together very often. I guess it
became a bad habit."
"Yeah. We are very close friends, and we keep our words to always
be together for the better of for the worse. I hope you could understand
why we prefer it that way, Ninsei and Ise." Her blue eyes looked at them
earnestly.
A pair of blank faces looked back at them. "Alright, so you're
inseperable. But can you also be our close friends? We've never had much
seriousness about friendships here in Practical. Would you promise that?"
Ise pushed back her bangs.
"We promise." they said altogether.
At that moment someone tapped Umi's shoulder. She turned around
to see their Astronomy Professor, Kuso Gakusha, whom they were sheduled to
meet every Monday evening. "Yes, Professor Gakusha?"
"I would like to have a word with Miss Shidou, Ryuuzaki and Hououji."
he looked at Ninsei and Ise. "In private."
"Yes Professor." the three followed their professor into an empty
classroom.
"Sit."
They sat, with perplexed looks at a teacher whom they never had a
class yet. Still they kept their silence to themselves.
"I have been tipped off by another student that you three were
practicing the Dark Arts early this morning in the nearby woods." He took
breath. "You must know by now that I am the Overseer of your year and I am
concerned of what you did. Where have you learned these Dark Arts? Hogwarts,
I suppose?"
At the surprising news, they made themselves look innocent. Someone
must have seen them. Their lips were sealed with determination. Minutes
passed by, Professor Gakusha merely stared at each of their eyes.
"No answer. Very well, I have no power to punish your case, which means the
Headmaster has the only authority to expell you three. Stand up. We will
be visiting the Headmaster." Forgetting about Defense Against the Dark Arts,
they followed their Overseer. Reaching the fifth floor through one of the
large staircases leading to it. They must be now is their topmost floor.
There were only two doors that can be found there, which were probably other
classrooms. Professor Gakusha was moving toward a wall to the two
Samurai-garbed statues. The wall was also ornamented with painted scrolls
hanging on pegs. They too,were moving, although not as realistic-looking as
the ones back in Hogwarts. Stepping in front of the statues, their Professor
spoke."Gakusha Kuso, Second Year Overseer, here to discuss about some
students." The two statues glowed yellow and came to life.
"Password if you please." One of them said.
"Shinsetsu."
At hearing the correct password, the two statues bowed down at them
and a wooden sliding door appeared behind it. Sliding it quickly, he almost
slammed it open. It had taken their Headmaster, Shitajiki Ken surprised at
the sudden outburst in his quiet room. The Headmaster's eyes tightened,
looking keenly at Professor Gakusha. He was surely not expecting anyone at
this time as he was entertaining a guest during their simple tea ceremony.
The guest had his back at the persons who just came in, adjacent to the
Headmaster. " What's wrong Kuso?"
"Ms. Shidou, Ryuuzaki and Hououji was caught outside in the woods
during breakfast." their Overseer pointed accusingly at the three
transferees.
"Then there is nothing wrong with that. They can walk freely around
the school grounds if they do not have any classes." Shitajiki replied.
" Practicing the Dark Arts." he added sharply.
"What made you think they were?"
"I was informed by Mr. Seiki Etsuya tha he had witnessed a Dark Arts
practice."
The young Headmaster moved his eyes to his guest, feeling anger, he
stood up from his seat and paced from left to right. He was looking for
words to answer the Second Year Overseer. Silence reigned for the moment as
the three Knights entered the room as the door slid itself closed. He found
it more and more frustrating to think.
"Excuse me Ken, I think I should have a say in this conversation."
A familiar voice rang clearly through Hikaru, Umi and Fuu's ears. He can't
be here they thought.
"Who might you be?" Professor Gakusha spat at the man who had his
back behind him.
"Kuso! Mind your manners! Your talking to-" Professor Shitajiki was
stopped at the raising of the guest's hand.
"I'm afraid we haven't met each other yet." the guest's head turned,
revealing an aging face, a crooked nose, sparkling blue eyes and half-moon
spectacles. "My name is Albus Dumbledore."
'No way!' Umi would have blurted it out as the other two were also
thinking on the same line. Hikaru nudged Umi as all three pairs of eyes
widened in surprise.
"The Hogawarts Headmaster!?!" their Overseer was taken by surprise.
"Yes, he is Kuso. I suggest you settle down by sitting where we are
currently discussing matters." The young Headmaster's finally unknotted his
tongue. The four did. "Where were we...?"
"About their extraordinary abilities." Professor Dumbledore jogged
his memory.
"Ah, yes, yes." Looking at the three transferees. He did not expect
them to appears while both headmsters were talking about them. "So you say
that these witches are out of the ordinary."
"Yes, they do." he gave a short nod. "But from my past observations
from them, they have to 'vent' their excess energies coming from their
abilities. They would often leave secretly, out of harm's way from other
people."
"So most probably that was what they did this morning." He said
in an acceptable tone fo relief. He looked at Professor Gakusha and back
at the Hogwarts Headmster. "But may I ask what are their abilities, I meant
to say was that upon your accurate observations, that you must have already
identified what they were. What are they?"
"These abilities you asked have yet to be identified in the Wizarding
World. Probably magic new to the next generations to come or rarely
appearing." Dumbledore finally took a sip of tea from the ceramic tea cup.
"Hm. Enigmatic witches. That's something we do not see every day.
Life's getting more complicated, am I right to say that Dumbldore?"
"Yes, it does complicate by the second."
"Do not worry about it. We shall be taking care of them and of their
gifts. I am happy you have informed me."
"No problem at all. I find your school very intriguing."
"Yes, feel free to look around." Professor Shitajiki looked warningly
at Profesor Gakusha's reaction at his words. Their eye contact had put a
stop to his interferance. "Professor Gakusha will escort you if you wish."
"No, but thanks. I have other businesses to attend to. Thank you for
your warm time and effort." He stood up, towering them and bent down to a
short bow. He turned to the Knights and did the same."I am hoping you to
study well."
"We will Professor Dumbledore. Thank you for your concern."
Seconds later he left. Professor Gakusha wore a grimace in his face
when the guest had already left. He did not seem to like being friendly
with other persons belonging to other schools aside from Practical.
"As for you three, you may return to classes." The young Headmaster
smiled at them.
The three stood up and bowed to their Professors, walked away. On the
steps down, they started talking."He must have assumed that anything weird
that might happen, will be blamed for us and came up at once with a cover."
Umi was the first one to start.
"That may be what we believe, but I wish we were able to talk to him
too. We could have at least told him what we've heard from Mokona, he could
have helped us find a way." Fuu gave a sigh of disappointment.
"I wish so too. His appearance must have meant about his concern for
us. I appreciate that at least we saw him, travelling half of the globe
just for that."
"Yeah. It was nice of him." Umi spoke as they were able to reach
other fellow Second Years before Analysis started. They were instructed to
further practice their weapon of choice, at each other if the class wanted
to. Professor Toru expected them to be well-trained before he starts his
Practical Analysis lessons. Today was an interesting day. So many events,
so little time.
Speaking of time, we haven't heard anything from the Sailor Senshi.
None of them were unaware that their greatest enemy was yet to come and they
are going to need all the help they can get.
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Here I go again. I hoped you enjoyed it. I kinda battered me brain to try and
finish this next chapter as I was not inspired. I also finally got HP5,
though not what I expected, I thought the war against the Dark Lord had
begun but it was allotted probably for Harry's 6th and 7th year at Hogwarts.
^-^ Please Review. You can send me comments, questions, suggestions, flame
or fan mail through reviewing my fanfic.
-Sailor Rainbow Ichi logging out for some more of Ragnarok!
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